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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-27
Brief Mention.

Sparks from locomotive ienited John Dora's
field of oats, near Oakland and forty acres were
burned
A special election was held in Clinton on Mon
day on the question of placing in operation a
system of water-works. It was carried by q
majority of 236.
The State Livestock Commissioners have in
formation that disease supposed to be Texas
fever has made its appearance at Ashland, Cass
county. 1t is alleged that shippers brought
Cherokee and Texas cattle there, and that the
disease has spread from them. veterinarian
has been dispatched to investigate the case and
make report.
= A few weeks ago DR.. Flowers went to- Oak
land. On Saturday and Monday many farmers
found their notes given Flowers in the hands of
merchants the national bank. These notes
were given with the promise that they were to
be paid if certain results ensued. Flowers gave
them supply of his nostrums after getting their
notes and then fed Before going Flowers con-
verted the notes into money, which was easily
done because they were signed by good, sub
stantial farmers. Over So 600 worth of these
notes are held by innocent purchasers.
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BUTLER ON BLAINE.
Ben Speaks Highly Of the Maine Man. but
Doesn't Want to Talk About Grover.

BosToN July 26.-General Butler, il an in
House, said ~ think Mr.. Blaine one of the
best equipped of public men, or, perhaps 1
should say, one of the best educated of public
men in the branches Of public government His
service has been long and of marked degree Of
efficiency He has remarkable intellectual at
tainments. He Is man of broad understand
ing and sympathies. His experience has been
long and wide. l have hesitation whatever
in saying that Mr. Blaine has a right to aspire
ana undoubtedly does aspire, to the presidency.
1 am sorry if ne is i'll. but have no doubt that 1t
is greatly exaggerated"
''Do you think he will be nominated in 1882"
''You have good an opportunity to judge as
J. The trend OF events should give him prom
judge from. am sailing in my yacht most of
the time. You see six newspapers TO my one.
take three newspaperS-onea Boston paper. one
a New York paper, ard one a paper at home,
Lowell. / have not travelled about much among
the people of late. L have, however, no hest
fancy in saying that the newspapers seem to
presage his nomination in 1888"
General Butler talked further of Mr.. Blaine in
q complimentary way. and intimated that the
chances strong Cor his denomination in
1883.
What do you think of Mr.. Cleveland9" Gen
eral Butler asked
General Butler said nothing for moment,
and contented himself with looking his cigar
ever Finally he said: Il would prefer to talk
in Maine and on the coast" Then he added:
'Mr Cleveland has had apparently happy life
in his presidency. / see he has been summering
up parallels of latitude"
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neiehborhood was apprised of the fact. Just
before the day set for the marriage Duncan
sent word to his affianced that matters could
rest for the present; that he had had d revela-
ton from the Lord the night before in
which the unfaIthfulness of his intended
bride was made known to him. and he
felt that he could possibly marry her
unless she made public statement of the
guilt with which he charged her and asked his
forgiveness in the presence OF his congregation.
she protested her innocence vehemently. but he
declared that one could deny the Lords reye
latons, and although he deplored the state of
affairs, the marriage could not go unless she
made the public acknowledgment required of
her. The elder claimed that God would not
recognize the union holy one, or righteous
virtuous, or loyal il she did not
make the confession. Under promise that the
wedding should Immediately follow, she did first
as he babe her. No sooner had he forced this
public statement from her lips than he declared
that he was released from his engagement. and
that he wanted her no more. Mrs. Cook had a
considerable sum OF pension money. This she
had confded to Duncan. The unfortunate
woman SO brooded over her wrongs that she has
become hopelessly insane, and the county court
has been applied to BY her friends to gain her
admission in the asylum. The preacher has
fed.
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the Case of Examiner BebIe.

WAsHINGToN, July 26-Some weeks ago Gen.
Black. Commissioner Of Pensions. with the ap
prevail of the Secretary of the Interior, ordered
lhe dismissal of c. E. Behle, special pension ex-
aminer at Cincinnati, upon information that
Behle, at meeting of a German literary society
q that city, on July 2, last, in the hearing of a
large company, used grossly insulting language
towards the President of the United States
subsequently, the Secretary ordered susp ension
VI the ordsr of dismissal until Behle could be
heard in his own behalf. Behle appeared at the
Interior Department. to-day and was given a per-
Sonal hearing by the Secretary. He did not
deny the charge, which was substantiated by the
Affdavits of several prominent people OF Cincin-
att, but said that he had recollection OF
using the language attributed to him. At the
onclusion of the interview the Secretary re-
voked his order of suspension, thus dismlsslng
Behle from the service.
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A DISHONORRD PREMIER.
Romantic Incidents in the Career of King
Kalakauas Deposed Minister.

COLUMBIA, S. C. July 26.-From Anderson,
this state. comes an interesting sketch of the
romantic career of Walter NJ Gibson. King Kali
akau's deposed Prime Minister. Gibson claims
Anderson. more than any other spot in America,
as his home, having spent quite period of his
life there. and having there wooed and won a
bride, later taken from him by death.
About 1889, Mr.. William vanwyck, q wealthy
planter or Anderson county was married to
MISS Maverick, and the young couple started to
New YORK on bridal trip. In New York Mr.
Vanwyck advertised in the Herald for driver
to lake his coach back to South Carolina. and
among tho applicants who came in answer to
tho advertisement was young Walter NJ. Gibson.
then mere boy, but already he had
gathered enough experience and kncwl-
edge OF the world to grac. a
respectable dime novel if his experiences had
this time nothing definite was known. but it was
said that he was Of foreign BIRTH and that he
had already been in prison in Greece. but had
escaped by the aid of the keepers daughters.
and, bad returned to New York. Gibson saw
Mr.. Vanwyck's advertisement and being out of
funds applied for the task and was ac-
New York to Norfolk. Va, where has employer,
who had come by different route. Joined him
with his wife, and they were driven from Nor
folk to Pendleton, s. G. While on the road. Mr.
and Mrs Vanwyck were carrying on converse
tions in French and German, until Gibson told
them that II they did not wish him to under
O.
This led to inquiry, and Mr. Vanwyck discov-
cred that his boy coachman was scholar, and
though coachman, he was treated one.
Gibson remained In Anderson county about ten
years. During that time he taught in the family
of his employer for about three years. He mar
ried q daughter of Mr.. Jesse Lewis of Sandy
Springs. who bore him three children. two
and daughter and she died about 1S4S. and
now lies buried in the old Lewis family burying-
ground, near the old homestead. For
short time after his wife died he g
steamboat the Savannah river He left
South Carolina in 1850, leaving his chill
dren here What he did for the next few year.
IS uncertain. at all events he followed hif
inclinatons, and became a free trader in his
little vessel which was originally intended 70,
one of the ships in the Missionary Australian
navy. It was at this time that he was cap
vieden. His escape from this prison in
itself romance He almost wor-
shipped by the natives, and there
woman who did a great deal assis,
him in his escape. The plot was laid and
vessel was made ready He had been furnished
with womans dress and. shaving off his beard
and changing his costume, be managed to pass
the guards and escape. This was in 1858. He
returned Immediately to Anderson but re
manned only about six months Taking his
children with him, he set out for Salt Lake
City. He remained there several years. ana
was there during the civil From Sail
Lake he went to the Sandwich Islands, and his
history from that time is we'll known to newG
Laper readers.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The National German American teachers con-
vention is in session at Milwaukee, with an at
tendance of three hundred. Mayor Samuel
Wallber and city superintendent of schools VIM.
Anderson, welcomed the delegates, and Louis
Salton. of St. Louis, responded.
Bob Jones. an aged colored man, OF Sunhower
county, Louisiana brutally murdered by
his sou-in-law, Lloyd Martin, while trying to
prevent Martin from whipping his wife. Mar
tin, who was always considered hard case, was
taken from the officers by mob of coiored
persons and lynched at Johnsonvlle yesterday
Two laborers Joseph Gahack aud Harry
Doyle, were instantly killed at Leadyi.le, Col,
yesterday, by the premature explosion of blast
on the Colorado Midland railroad The men
were blown high in the air and came down life
less, their eyes protruding from their sockets
and their bodies horribly mutilated.
The will of the late VIM. Glenn, of Cincinnati
probated yesterday makes public requests,
mostly for religious and educational oreaniza-
tons. amounting to 1872, 000. The largest are
81. 900 each to the Ohio Wesleyan University
Wesleyan Female College. of Cincinnati and
ST. Paul's II. E. Church, OF Cincinnati, for local
missions.
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THE COLOR LINE IN GEORGIA.
Glen School Bill Attracting Wide Attention
"A Defense Of the Measure by Its Author.

ATLANTA. July 26.-The excitement caused
by the introduction of the Glen bill in the Legis-
lature is undated, and grows every day. Mr.
Glen says that the sentiment of the people Of
Georgia is strongly in favor of his bill. but he
fears opposition from some of the politicians
who will, it is thought. oppose the bill in order
aot to be subjected to censure or criticism from
the North. "The measure" Mr.. Glen says, sis
both timely and wise. All of our race problems
should be settled now, and not left to embarrass
,ther generations. Then it may be matter of
4mpossibility, and unless we legislate the
aext generation may not have it in their power
to enact the laws necessary to forever separate
the white and black races"
do yon think the race prejudice will eventu-
Sly be overcomel"
''Never 1t is a natural prejudice, and it is
foolish to try to overcome nv legislation any
thing that is repugnant to human nature"
"Why does your bill hit at schools moro than
at anything elseF"
Because they have been brought by the re-
port of the board of visitors directly to the az
tention of the public Another reason is that
looking after the children is the most important
of all things Il pc done at present. There
be no estimate of the evils that will arise from
the commin Cling of the races at young and i'm
pressible ages in unrestricted intercourse, each
imbibiDg the worst ideas of the other The
miscegenatiop of ideas may be as fatal as physi-
sal miseengenation, and the intellectual hybrid
montrosty as the physical h " brid could be-"
The negroes stirred up all sides, and
many of them are loud in their protests against
such a bill Indignation meetings have been
held. and have been largely attended. Speeches
were made at these meetings by the most prom
inent colcred men in the country, and resolu-
tions were drafted showing the of the
meetings AT of them a memorial to the
Legislature prepared and signed by
eight hundred colored citizens. This memorial
asked the Legislature not to allow the passage
of the bill
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A BASEBALL SENSATION,
Association Clubs Make Determined Effort
to Gust President Wikoff.

NEW YORK, July &c The World tomorrow
will say that the greatest excitement prevailed
in base bail circles yesterday when it became
known that a special secret meeting of the
American Association hac been held in
this city. The clubs represented were
the Metropoitan,sby W. W. Watorus; Louis
ville by lack Phelps; Cleveland. by F. +.
Robinson st. Louis, by Chris Won tder Abe.
The primary object of tho meeting was to depose
Wheeler G. Wikoff, of Columbus, the present
pres1dentsecretary, charges of incompetency
and neelect being preferred against him by the
ST. Louis club, the president of which, Chris
Won der Ahe, addressed the meeting and recited
HE grievances. He intimated that President
Wikoff was simply tool for the Brooklyn club,
and he then fired bomb into the camp by ex-
claiming. II will jump into the League" A
rather exciting discussion followed. but a vote
oust Wikoff and elect a new president could not
be taken owing to the absence of Barnie, of the
Baltimore club, who would have made a majority
necessary to election 1t being understood he held
a proxy from the Athletics. Cooler counsel then
asserted itself, and it agreed to adjourn to
Sept g. A message was wired Wikof fol-
lows:
We desire special m Getting of the American Asso.
citation called for Sept. 3. at New York.
JACK PHELPS. Louisville;
i. Z. ROBINSON, Cleveland;
w. W. WATRoUs, Metropolitan;
CHRIS Won DER ABE, St. Louis.
To the World reporter Mr.. Won der Abe said: 81
have about determined to leave the Association
because of the way I have been treated This
man Wikoff / incompetent and does as he is
told by Byrne. L have done with the whole lot
of them. 1 have made money for them all, but
they can't make money for me, and besides,
what little | might make is taken back in fines.
Last year | paid three-quarters of all the fines
imposed nearly $500 of the 200 paid into
the treasury Wikoff Is Byrne's man. and so
Byrne not at the meeting. We will get rid
of this man Wlkoff, you can bet on that"
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A Divorce That Created Sensation.

ST. LOUIS, July pa great surprise, if not
sensation, was created in Springfield, Mo-, upper
crust society last evening by the institution, in
the Circuit Court, of divorce proceedings by
Mrs. Sarah II. ODay against her husband, John
ODay, to whom she was married twenty three
years ago. After hearing the testimony the
court granted the decree, and awarded to plant
if, as asked in her petition, alimony in the
of $4,000, the homestead property, valued at
$125, 900, and the rights and privileges of sim
gle person, with the custody of her youngest
son. Mr.. ODay, who was present, thereupon
delivered to the plaintiff deed TO the homa-
stead, bill of sale for the horses, carriages,
furniture etc. and a check for $40, 900. and the
case closed with apparent satisfaction to all par
ties concerned. Mr.. ODay for a number of
years chief attorney of the St Louis g. San
Francisco railroad. and is now its first vice.
president. He is also chairman of the Demo
cratic State committee. and prominent poll
tician. and is reputed to be worth ST. 600. coo.
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lung trouble.
General Comfy was born in New Lexington.
Perry county. Ohio, fifty-fve years ago He
had good educational advantages, and was a
college bred man. After he was graduated he
learned the printers trade in the OHIO State
Journal office, at Columbus. and was for several
years the foreman of that papers composing
room. He studied law while working ct his
trade under Attorney general Wolcott and was
admitted to the bar. He practiced law for two
years, and when the war broke out
enlisted He had been a member OF the
State Fencibles. an excellent military COM
pany at Colum bus, and was we'll equipped for act
i've service. He was elected an officer in Cen
eral Hayes's regiment. His rise was rapid, and
breveted brigadier- general During the war
General Comfy married Miss Smith. daughter
of Dr. S. NJ. Smith, of Columbus. After the
war of the rebellion General Comfy became the
editor of the State Journal, and remained in
that position for about twelve years. or till
1877, when he appointed by President
Hayes minister to Honolulu.
While General Comfy was editor OF the State
Journal he became known as one of the most
pungent paragraph writers in the United States
While he was the United States minister at
Honolulu the King became financially embar-
raised. There danger of rebellion and
the representatives of all foreign governments
lection wanted to form temporary govern
ment, with General Comfy at its head. The
King would have been deposed and Comfy
would have doubtless had permanent position
of power and affiuence, but the sense of
duty to his country and loyalty to his own fine
cept the tempting offer that was freely made
him. After his return to this country he pur-
ch ased the Toledo Commercial, in the spring of
1888, and has been living here ever since.
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EIopement and Marriage.

Special TO the IndlanapOIIB
SHELBYvILLE, July 26.-About 1:30 this morn
ing the deputy clerk, c. j. Fastlaben, was
aroused from his slumbers and taken to the
courthouse. where he issued q license to Samuel
Updegraff, of Newton. Illinois, brother of Bert
Updegraff, of the Grand Hotel, Indian
apolis and Miss Jeffersonia B. Hauser,
daughter of l.. II. Hauser, prom
inent druggist of Columbus and ex-clerk
of Bartholomew county. The couple
quickly united at the home OF the groom by the
Rev. II. II. Nesslage. 1t was a case of elope-
ment. Miss Hausers parents desired her to at
tend the Conservatory of Music at Boston for
two years yet, but the girl declined. To-day
they returned to Columbus to ask the forgive
ness of the indignant parents.
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Illinois district will be known the Indiana
district. J. II. Fritts. supervising examiner.
The Territory of.New Mexico is transferred from
the Western the Missouri district, l.. III.
the State of Ohio lying north of the Pan
handle or p. G. & St. L. railroad. running
through 5teubenville Columbus, Urbana and
Union City, is transferred from the Potomac to
the district to be known the Indiana district
The counties Of jefferson. Harrison, Muskingum
Licking Pickaway. Madison. Champaign
Miami and Darke, which lie along said railroad
will remain In the Potomac district. All other
counties through which said railroad passes, not
especially named herein. belong to the Indiana
district
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General Notes.

WASHINGTON. July 26.-Assstanr Cashie
Meline, OF the Treasury, has gone to Cincinnati
with force of clerks to examine the condition
of the sub-treasury of that city.
The Comptroller of the Currency has author
lied the following-naned banks to begin BUSH
ness: The National Bank Of Commerce of Kan
sas City, Mo, capital 500. 900; the First National
Bank of Milbrook, Kan, capital $50, 900.
The Comptroller of the Currency having re-
ceived information that the Henrietta National
Bank of Henrietta, Texas. has suspended. has
directed the State bank examiner to take charge
of it's affairs and TO report promptly the result Of
his examination.
In the case Of the Traders and Travellers
Union against the Philadelphia 81 Reading Rail
road Company the Inters ia te-commerce Com
mission has decided that it has jurisdiction,
and dismissed the complaint The case involves
she free TRANSPORTATION of extra baggage.
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Carpenters Ordered to Strike.

CHICAGO, July 26.-An carpenters in Chicago
working more than eight hours a day, or for less
than thirty five cents an hour, or upon a con-
tract where non union men are employed. re-
ceived formal instructions tonight to strike to-
morrow morning. IL is estimated that nearly
3 600 mer. come within the conditions specified.
The decision to order a strike was reached this
evening at a meeting of the carpenters council
and was d ne to a refusal on the part of the mas
ter carpenters to enter into any sc heme Of arbi-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-27

SULPHURs the thing to Danish eruptions,
complexional blemishes sores, govt and rheu-
matism. This great remedial agent is effectu-
ally and inexpensively embodied in Glenn's
Sulphur Soap, which ia just beneficial as
costly sulphur baths. Sold by druggists
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye. black or brown,
Soc
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-27
The Bloody Shirt

San Francisco Chronicle.
So long as treason is honored and traitor
crowned with laurels long as the Union
only accepted and not welcomed; so long tn
South is held together by the blood stained
bands of rebellion; and long as the negro
denied the right of fair, full and free ballor
just long will the loyal North continue *
teach the lessons of loyalty and patriotism, q
equal rights for all men. and of devotion
''bloody shirt" from those who did not destro.
~ Union only because they could not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-27
An independent Crowd.

SC. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Ohio Republicans are getting lots of ad-
vice from the outside to how the Toledo con-
vention should be conducted. This is exactly
what Ohio men hate, and they pay no more at
tention TO outside babble than to the murmur of
the distant They generally manage their
own affairs exactly according their no.
tsous. They will do so at Toledo.
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Colorea Troops at the Chicago Eneampment.

CHICAGO, July 27-The order issued by Gen
eral Bentley. barring colored troops from the
international military encampment to be held
here In October. was recalled to-day by request
of the board of managers in charge of the enter
prise. notice mas been issued by General
Bentley that colored companies, regularly mus
tered into the National Guard, will now be per-
mitted to attend. No colored troops have ever
intimated in any way that they desired to be
present ct this encampment.
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Thrown from a Train.

Special to the IndanaDoIls Journs.-
ELKHART. July ga young man, Peter
Friese. claims to have been thrown from Lake
Shore passenger train last night, on the out
skirts of this city, while riding from Chicago to
Toledo. He has a terrible wound on his head, a
badly-injured hand and several bruises on his
body. He says he would know the man who
threw him of, and an vestigation of Etrainmen
will be made. 1t will be some time before he
will be- able to proceed his way.
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The Way It Looks To Outsiders.

Detroit Tribune.
The trial of the Democratic tally-sheet forgers
at Indianapolis will probably result in tho con
viction of several widely known and influential
Democratic managers. The evidence ag aims {
them is overwhelming. The statement of Per-
kins, who turned States evidence, is strongly
corroborated.
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Rurclars mt Kniphtstown.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
KNIGHTsTowN, July pa general raid by
burglars was made on a number of private resi-
dences here last night. The thieves succeeded
in getting $18 of Mr.. Burt Harris and small
amounts at several other residences.